The 15th of January, 1919-- 2.3 million gallons of molasses pouring through the streets of Boston at 35 miles per hour! 21 deaths! "Horses died like so many flies on sticky flypaper!" Massive property damage! And they say that on a sunny day you can still smell molasses in the North End...

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There are lots of Molasses Day parties scheduled over this week! Yay parties!

Really, parties?

College town, so of course.

I get that, mostly, and I understand "waves of molasses" sounds more entertaining than dangerous. It just seems really strange to me to have tragedies remembered with parties. Like, there are no 9/11 parties or anything that I'm aware of.

People in Boston will party for ANY reason. In this case, most of them thing of it as "a molasses flood" instead of a "molasses flood where people died". starrynight has it right, probably, it was long enough ago and not an intentional act, so it is easy to make it into a party. Interestingly, it is the burners I know throwing the parties, not the college kids (the college kids don't know about local history).

People in Boston will party for ANY reason. In this case, most of them thing of it as "a molasses flood" instead of a "molasses flood where people died". starrynight has it right, probably, it was long enough ago and not an intentional act, so it is easy to make it into a party. Interestingly, it is the burners I know throwing the parties, not the college kids (the college kids don't know about local history).

!!! We must know several of the same people, because the 2 molasses flood parties I know about are also being held/attended by burner friends!

People in Boston will party for ANY reason. In this case, most of them thing of it as "a molasses flood" instead of a "molasses flood where people died". starrynight has it right, probably, it was long enough ago and not an intentional act, so it is easy to make it into a party. Interestingly, it is the burners I know throwing the parties, not the college kids (the college kids don't know about local history).

!!! We must know several of the same people, because the 2 molasses flood parties I know about are also being held/attended by burner friends!

Haha, likely we do! I didn't end up going to the parties, one was out far(ish) from the T and I had stuff planned during the others.